Get My Thoughts on Automation & Development

Standup meetings Why have a Teams channel where everyone can post what they are struggling with, so anyone can respond to help and start a 1-on-1...

Complexity <> Sophisticated It can be just overly complex, because the person who created it didn't understand it well enough. Teachers face...

The Scrum ticket system You're churning out tickets, classified as 'features', that strongly resemble clean-up tasks. Are all team members solely...

5 reasons NOT to automate. This might sound odd coming from me, a staunch advocate of automation. However, beware! If you're handling a process for...

Justifying marketing is hard. Generating awareness and traffic is hard to quantify. What is the ROI for marketing? The reason is the distance to the...

Be a T-shape developer I always advocate developers to specialize when they are becoming senior. But don't lose track of the rest of the playfield....

OpenTelemetry for Dataverse ServiceClient? I love OpenTelemetry. It's so easy to plug in instrumentation and have a clear view of your distributed...

Nobody cares about bad code if it works. Besides you and your team, others don't care about the bad code that exists in your codebase. Management...

Locality of Behavior principle (LoB): "The behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code." This...

'Functions need to do one thing'-mantra is wrong. Since Robert C. Marting wrote the book Clean Code, developers try to implement the guidelines from...

This time it's going to work: Papa! My first word of my son was 'apple'. Now tutoring my little daughter of 9 months to say 'papa' (daddy) as her...

Imagine if every microservice gave insights. And that every piece of code would do generate these insights in the same way? Could you link one...

When to create a Custom Activity? I'm always very reluctant to create Custom Activities. They come with a lot of bagage. Their stretch is...

Five myths about .NET and C# Why is .NET not popular with startups? This was a question asked on Reddit, where the main theme in the answers was a...

You hate doing Sales? Picture the pushy car salesperson who breathes down your neck. No one aspires to be that. Is that what sales is to you? It...

Don't use /> in HTML 🚫! I always thought I needed to close HTML tags properly, even for tags like <br/>🏷️. It was in the hype around 2000s...

Playing with Microsoft Kiota I needed to create a strong typed client in C# based on a OpenAPI or Swagger definition. I like these generated models,...

Small, Daily Steps to Success! Success isn't birthed from grand, one-time events. It's the result of consistent, everyday actions. For instance,...

Is Campaign still being used in Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM)? Campaign management has already been a long time in Dynamics 365 Sales, but is it still...